*k̑ó-ni

This word is attested once in a mythical passage.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.

[E.R.]

Meriggi 1957a:213 n. 52 was the first scholar to characterize zāni as “dunkle Form von za- ‘dieser’.” He translates the exclamation of the Sun-god za-a-ni-wa ku-wa-ti ^dKam-ru-še-pa in the mythological passage: ‘wie (ist) das, oh Kamrušepa?’. Laroche 1958a:87 further adduces a near-parallel, KBo 9.127++ i 12’ (most recent edition in Steitler 2017a:388f.) on the same tablet: i-ni-wa ku-˹it˺ ‘What is that?’ and translates the Luwian sentence as ‘tale quid (est)?’, thus assuming that zani is an adverbial pronoun ‘such’. Later, in his treatment of the pronoun aši, uni, e/ini (Laroche 1979a:149), he renders the same sentence as ‘id quid (est)?’, identifying zani as the nom./acc. sg. n. form of the pronoun, which is now known to be a distal pronoun ‘that (over there)’ (Hoffner & Melchert 2008a:146 with references). In the meantime, kuwati has been interpreted adverbially as ‘as; how?’ (vs. Hitt. kuit ‘what?’) and, therefore, the two sentences are not completely parallel anyway. Moreover, both the structural coherence within the clause and the analogy between the Pal. adverb kani ‘thus, in this way’ and zāni (see under Stem) speak for an adverbial interpretation as ‘so’ (Yakubovich and Sasseville, pers. comm., contra Meriggi 1957a:213 n. 52; Laroche 1958a:87; DLL:113; Steitler 2017a:388f.; Goedegebuure 2010c:63; Torri 2010a:386).Outdated Laroche 1954a:123.

[E.R.]

No other forms of a possible paradigm are attested.

[E.R.]

This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon.

[D.S.]

Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz. The reading with the sign ga instead of ta is supported by the lexical analysis of Melchert 1984b:35; cf. Carruba 1970a:19.

[D.S.]

Melchert 1984b:35 compares the pronominal forms gāni and apani, both of which appear in similar sentences, and suggests an adverb of manner: gāni=du=tta kuiš anitti ‘whoever performs in this way for you’. The author suggests that the ending -ani is nom./acc. sg. n. (cf. Hitt. eni ‘this’) and would, therefore, constitute the direct object of the verb. However, based on the passage KUB 35.165 rev. 9’-10’, where the verb aniye/a-^(ti) appears frequently, it is clear that the verb is used intransitively. That voids the need for a direct object here. The forms gāni and apani are frozen forms of the pronouns kā- and apa- respectively and are used as adverbs of manner.

[D.S.]